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[xxxxx]

A few of us have been talking and we're already tired of being broke, so we're wondering what everyone hopes to do here job-wise, what you did before, and how you go about explaining it to the locals if they want to know about your previous floor-sweeping or shelf-stocking experience before allowing you to sweep any floors or stock any shelves. Especially if your job back home was a little more complicated than that.

And have any of them asked any of you for references? Do they actually check them?

Does anybody have any experience with making up false references wholecloth? Can we begin acting as one another’s references?--which is a terribly trust based suggestion, we realise, and so the following question,

Should we design a character test for the sake of honest false reference corroboration? (‘We’ is the general ‘we’ not the ‘we’ asking these questions.) Is there anyone here who is not a reliable hard worker that the rest of us should be sure not to refer for anything?

Before anyone feels the need to point out that unreliable lazy workers will lie: yes, thank you, please see similar discussions following the questions about murder.

[ For the record, this is the product of a phone and its tiny keyboard being passed around among several different curious people. Remus just drew the short straw, because there is no justice in any world, and has to post it. Also, threadjacking super encouraged if you feel the urge. ]

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[songofdeneir]

As did I, along with the inevitable mishaps that will go along with such an unbridled attempt at mass deception.

Believe me, I have been doing everything I can to learn what I need to survive here. It is something of a religious endeavor for me.

[doggo]

Religious electrical use
Hope you've not found a roaster to worship

[songofdeneir]

No no.
Religious learning.
I am a priest of a god of knowledge, learning all I can is one of the ways I honor him.

[doggo]

That's a relief
How's he like the taste of the knowledge that mostly everything's been destroyed

Pretty well, I imagine, as now you have all new learning to do
Like finding a new cafe

[songofdeneir]

-=there's a good pause here before he replies=-

He still exists. That is all I know right now.
In what form I cannot say.

[doggo]

Yeah
Good for you then
And for him

What do you mean you can recreate

[songofdeneir]

Exactly what it sounds like.
I am able to recall in great detail anything I have read, and can rewrite it if need be.

[doggo]

I think there's a word for that one

[songofdeneir]

Eidetic.
Though it is not so great a thing as one may think.

[doggo]

I wasn't thinking it was that great

[And in case it's somehow unclear that was a joke--]

Honestly it can't be all that bad, can it

[songofdeneir]

Let us simply say that sometimes there are things best left forgotten.

[doggo]

[Oh, well.]

Yeah
Don't need to have an eidetic memory to agree with that one

[xxxxx]

Oh.

Not the god of dinner, then.

[ That's a little disappointing. ]

[songofdeneir]

No, not the god of dinner.
We do not have a god specifically for mealtimes.
Chauntea is the closest as she is the goddess of harvest.


-=then a moment later as if an afterthought=-
There is an orcish god who is sometimes worshiped as a god of food though he did not start out that way.

[xxxxx]

I see. [ He does not entirely see. His mother was C of E. ] Does the orcish food god have a name?

In case this job business doesn't work out and I need to pray.

[ A joke! He's joking. For the record. If nothing else, there's food on the station. ]

[songofdeneir]

Yurtrus!
Though he was originally a god they prayed to in hopes of preventing death and disease, some tribes began worshiping him as a god of food and health that needed to be appeased, which essentially had the same effect in the end.

Unfortunately, I know little about any specific practices of prayer among the orc tribes. It was not a subject I studied extensively on.

-=he'll catch on to the joke later. maybe. eventually. texting is hard=-

[xxxxx]

Both side of that coin seem useful. I'll wing it.

[ Texting is hard. ]

What is it that you did study extensively?

[songofdeneir]

I did a great deal of research about harmony in relation to magic and it's function in the world, as well as its connection to the gods.